Stables Market
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The Stables Market is the largest section of Camden Market, in Camden Town, London, England. The market has been built in the former Midland Railway stables and horse hospital. Many of the stalls and shops are set into huge arches in railway viaducts.
[edit] Shops and Stalls
There is a mixture of indoor and outdoor shops and stalls, some of them permanent, other hired by the day. Chain stores are not permitted. Like most of the other markets with Camden Market, the Stables Market has many clothes stalls. It is also the main home of furniture stores in the Markets, and many household goods and decorative items are also sold, many of them hand-made, and often ethnically influenced. Some of the goods are second hand.
Another focus is on clothing and art pieces for alternative sub-cultures such as goths and cyber-goths. Two of the more famous of these shops are Black Rose, which caters for goths, with items for sale such as coffin-shaped handbags, and Cyberdog, which houses a huge range of neon PVC and rubber clothing.
Whilst the Stables Market, and the Camden markets generally, have their roots in alternative sub-cultures, high numbers of tourists Visitor numbers are now so high that Camden tube station is way-out only on Sunday afternoons.
During the weeks leading up to Christmas in 2004, the high-profile radio DJ and TV presenter Chris Evans made use of a stall in the Stables Market to sell many of his possessions, ranging from sofas to TVs and crockery.
As of 2006 a large indoor market hall is under construction in a yard between the Stables Market and Camden Lock Market, which was previously used for open air stalls.
